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December 7–8, 2010 in Charlotte, North Carolina
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7:00 pm |
Welcome Reception and Buffet Dinner (dinner at 7:30 PM) |
7:30
am
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Breakfast |
8:30
am |
Conference Welcome
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8:40
am |
Conference Overview
Mike Hawley, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board |
9:00
am |
What’s Really Real about Immersive Virtual Reality?
Fred Brooks, Author, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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9:45
am |
Electrochemical Pathways Towards Sustainability
Don Sadoway, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
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10:30
am |
Break |
11:00
am |
The New Generation of Single Molecule Detectors
Michael Strano, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT |
11:45
am |
Biological Inspiration: Design Lessons from Nature
Robert Full, Director, Poly-PEDAL Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley |
12:30
pm |
Members'
Working Lunch |
1:30
pm |
The Unstructured Frontier
Paul Nemirovsky, Founder, Localot Research |
2:00
pm |
A Subtle Change in How Stuff Is Created
Scott Summit, Co-Founder, Bespoke Innovations |
2:30
pm |
The Open-Hardware Revolution
Peter Semmelhack, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Bug Labs |
3:00
pm |
Break |
3:30
pm |
Dark Matter, Dwarf Galaxies, and Digital Surveys
Marla Geha, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Yale University |
4:00
pm |
Computational Photography and the Stanford Frankencamera
Marc Levoy, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University |
4:45
pm |
Reflections
Eric Haseltine, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board |
7:00
pm |
Reception
and Dinner |
7:30
am |
Breakfast |
8:30
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TTI/Vanguard Announcements
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8:45
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Hackers and Invention
Pablos Holman, Inventor, Intellectual Ventures |
9:30
am |
Making Room for Innovation
Chris Shipley, Co-Founder, Guidewire Group |
10:15
am |
Break |
10:45
am |
Live Matrix: What’s When on the Web
Sanjay Reddy, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Live Matrix |
11:15
am |
Building Functional Materials via a “Bottom-Up” Approach: One Piece at a Time
Ting Xu, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, U.C. Berkeley |
11:45
am |
Spiders, Silk, and Webs: Biomimicry and the Role of Basic Biology
Todd A. Blackledge, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Akron |
12:25
pm |
Members'
Working Lunch |
1:30 pm |
Computation from Nature
Nicola Rohrseitz, Founder, ViSSee |
2:10 pm |
Low-Cost Eye-Tracking Hardware and Software
Mick Ebeling, Founder, Not Impossible Foundation |
2:45 pm |
Mirror Worlds: On the Verge of a 3-D Revolution
Victor Shenkar, Chief Executive Officer, GeoSim Systems |
3:30
pm |
Conference Reflections
Dr. Bob Lucky, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board |
4:00
pm |
Close of Conference |
7:00
pm |
Dinner |
Thursday, December 9
7:30
am |
Breakfast |
8:00
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Field Trip to Hendrick MotorSports |
12:00 pm
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Lunch |
12:30 pm |
Depart for airport or return to hotel |
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